How Effing Ignernt Are You People?

About this ignernt:

Unbelievable. Did they make you morons, or were you always fucking cretins?

From Hullabaloo.

Get It?

From the M. Bouffant Collection. Probably my grandfather's, as he lived in Missouri at the time.

The Nat'l. Review's idea of humor:

A List of Things Democrats Might Do If They Retake Power

There are plenty of reasons to fear a Democratic trifecta in Washington, which next week’s midterms may very well set up for 2028. Below is a list of actions and policies that give conservatives cause for alarm:

1. Blowing out the national debt on a party-line vote that bypasses the Senate filibuster.
2. Threatening to eliminate the filibuster entirely to shove through partisan legislation.
3. Threatening to remove judges who rule against the party in power.
4. Openly circumventing Supreme Court decisions through extralegal executive actions.
5. Appointing partisan hacks to lifetime judicial positions.
6. Governing almost exclusively through executive orders to bypass the legislative process.
7. Targeting political enemies with selective and pretextual prosecutions.
8. Further turning the machinery of the administrative state against political enemies over their constitutionally protected associations.
9. Handing out taxpayer money to political allies.
10. Attempting to dominate civic institutions by having the government lean on them.
11. Arbitrarily restricting what consumers can buy.
12. Carving up the tax code to funnel money to special interests.
13. Seeking détente with Putin and compromising our military effort against Russia.
14. Cozying up to China to bolster our commercial ties.
15. Diminishing our military preparedness to fight a major conflict.
16. Demanding that Israel cut short its just wars of self-defense.
17. Seizing control of private enterprises and turning them into effective arms of the state.
18. Promising to hand out trillions of dollars in “free” benefits.
19. Pressuring the Federal Reserve to flood the economy with easy money.
20. Blocking energy projects on a whim.
21. Allowing criminal migrants into our country.
22. Punishing people without due process.
23. Favoring certain groups of people based on their race.
24. Reigniting a politics of identity and victimhood.
25. Attempting to stay in power permanently by assaulting America’s constitutional order.

Truly frightening stuff. Obviously, any party that would do such things should never be given complete political power.

Never again, to coin a phrase. Say, did NR endorse Vice-president Harris in '24? Or are they as guilty as the rest of them?

Interesting, If Not Good News

Status: “According to Nielsen ratings obtained by Status in advance of their release, October 2026 will be Fox News’ lowest-rated month since December 2023, with the network averaging 1.1 million total day viewers. Among viewers in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic, the picture is even worse. Fox News will post its lowest-rated month in that category in 25 years, averaging just 98,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo.”

”Those figures represent a steep 27% drop compared to last October in total viewers, and a 32% plunge in the 25-54 demo…”

”The Fox News ratings indicate that conservatives are tuning out ahead of the high-stakes elections. While television ratings are not a scientific measure of voter enthusiasm, the eye-popping decline in Fox News’ audience should be a flashing warning sign for Trump and his Republican allies as voters prepare to head to the polls. In comparison to Fox News, the progressive MS NOW is averaging 588,000 total day viewers, a 16% spike compared to last year, suggesting enthusiasm has shifted to the Democratic side of the aisle.”

Stolen in its entirety from Political Wire, as Status wants your e-mail in return for reading. Shove it up your ass, Status, you greedy pigs. I don't need more fucking bullshit infesting my inboxes. Or my telebison.

The Future!

Interesting load of codswallop from what Tengrain calls "The Mouth of Sauron."

Eye-opening revelations this past week have solidified my personal fears about the year ahead: As a nation and as a globe, we're facing a record number of wild risks that are way outside our control.

Feeling nervous, punk? There is mention of chain reactions; one event may not be the end of the world, but should it set off another that's just waiting to happen, followed by another ...

Here, we see ol' Jim's bullet point priorities:

• You can only make wise decisions for your career, your life and your family if you're living in the future — understanding what's coming, and living these historic times with your head in the game.

No. 1, followed by No. 1. He did work the sacred "family" in there, at the end. Thanks for the pep talk, Coach.

Not having much of a future is fun. Couldn't possibly care any less, & wouldn't mind seeing the whole shithouse go up in flames.

Saturday Civics Lesson

As ever, the urbane sophisticates of the large states vs. the small-state goobers & hicks. And why there is a Senate. As if a "state", or its legislature, has any "rights" or interests that supersede those of its people. The wealthy, rigging the game since 1786.

And not word one about slavery. No doubt simplified for classroom consumption, which is no excuse.

Basketball News & Notes

High-scoring games.

Best of luck to all the teams.

WHY INDEED?

Thurber Thursday

No One Under 50 Knows Or Cares

More stuff, if you'd like to know more. From news from me. F-book link (Don't encourage them!) from the video poster.

You Don't Need A Weatherman ...

... & You Don't Need To Talk To A Clinical Psychopath To Know He's A Clinical Psychopath

So shut up, quacks. He's as easy to diagnose as leprosy.

Norfolk & Western RS-3 #2547

Escalation

DESTROY ALL GOVERNMENTS & CORPORATIONS! ANARCHY NOW!!

Students Join Albanian "Riots"

Same "Riots", Different Day

Another bang-up job bringing peace, Kushner. I wonder what the odds or "percentages" are on how long the current gummint will last.

In Fourteen Hundred & Ninety-Two, Columbus Sailed ...

My goodness, some people really do hate America. Where do they get such bad attitudes?

Actually, Kurt, it was thousands of years.

Ah, no wonder there was no mail today.

Friday Freak Out

And tab-clearing.

Jeff Simmons, a Real Mother.People I know:

Inscrutable, dense, manic, bizarre, intense, aloof, schizophrenic,” once wrote Option Magazine. The Wild Stares, formed in Boston in 1979 by Justin Burrill and Steve Gregororpoulos, joined by Fran Miller Campbell toured Europe and the U.S. several times, releasing many recordings along the way and relocated to L.A in 1988 adding drummer Kyle C. Kyle before morphing into W.A.C.O. in 1993.

Accurate description.

There will always be an England: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

Thursday Tab-Clearing

Advertising Analysis W/ Connie Clausen

This commercial is in my "Non-Sequitor" bookmarks, so I was amused to see this:

Analyzing the Persuasive Elements of a 1961 Coca-Cola Commercial

Ms. Clausen, by the way, had better things to do than be a "low-level actress".

"Fracture From Within"

This may be overstated by contrarians at the C.I.A. hoping to apper clever, but it's fun.

CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse

U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.

CIA experts pointed to a volatile mix of pressures converging ahead of Israel’s elections on October 27: economic crisis and soaring military spending; heavily armed veterans returning from prolonged combat, many carrying serious psychological trauma; growing fury over ultra-Orthodox men who are exempt from military service; escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting to hold onto power and igniting a constitutional crisis.

The CIA’s “red teams” are tasked with developing analysis and ideas that challenge prevailing assumptions and expose groupthink or blind spots that can take hold within the intelligence apparatus. “The writers of this are Israel experts,” a source in the intelligence community noted, “this isn’t a fantastical what if—with the upcoming election and the fissures in Israel we should take seriously their conclusion that Israel is one spark away from real internal conflict.”

All Aboard For The Future!

Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time

• 43% of Americans view socialism positively
• Positive views of big business down to 35%; capitalism steady at 55%
• Small business, free enterprise remain most popular economic concepts

They may be wising up, but support for such amorphous concepts as "free enterprise" & "capitalism" is a good indication of how ignorant fools are turned out every graduation by America's bullshit educational system.

And "small business" is a knife that cuts both ways. Sometimes a small business is family exploiting family, or just greedy, small-minded pigs. And sometimes they are good businesses that do help local communities & economies.

Sunday Message

Y'know, that Jesus Christ feller was a (((Joo))) too.

How Your Gov't. Worked

But Not Any More, Not That It Was Much Better Then

Don't forget the hideous racism that was still enshrined in law. And the sexism. Filthy hypocrites.

George Gershwin's Birthday Too

Gershwin & Coltrane, two of America's musical giants, born on the same date. Who'da thunk it?Gershwin died too young too.

His Masterpiece

Won't embed, but worth the listen, w/ live performances & alternative takes.